William Boyd

Vienna. 1913. It is a fine day in August when Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through the city to his first appointment with the eminent psychiatrist, Dr. Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is anxiously pondering the nature of his problem when an extraordinary woman enters. She is clearly in distress, but Lysander is immediately drawn to her strange, hazel eyes and her unusual, intense beauty. Later the same day they meet again, and a more composed Hettie Bull introduces herself as an artist and sculptor, and invites Lysander to a party hosted by her lover, the famous painter Udo Hoff. Compelled to attend and unable to resist her electric charm, they begin a passionate love affair. Life in Vienna becomes tinged with the frisson of excitement for Lysander. He meets Sigmund Freud in a cafe, begins to write a journal, enjoys secret trysts with Hettie and appears to have been cured. London, 1914. War is stirring, and events in Vienna have caught up with Lysander. Unable to live an ordinary life, he is plunged into the dangerous theatre of wartime intelligence - a world of sex, scandal and spies, where lines of truth and deception blur with every waking day. Lysander must now discover the key to a secret code which is threatening Britain's safety, and use all his skills to keep the murky world of suspicion and betrayal from invading every corner of his life. Moving from Vienna to London's west end, the battlefields of France and hotel rooms in Geneva, Waiting for Sunrise is a feverish and mesmerising journey into the human psyche, a beautifully observed portrait of wartime Europe, a plot-twisting thriller and a literary tour de force from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart, Restless and Ordinary Thunderstorms.

It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge.A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the small West African nation of Zanzarim. Aided by a beautiful accomplice and hindered by the local militia, he undergoes a scarring experience which compels him to ignore Ms orders in pursuit of his own brand of justice. Bonds renegade action leads him to Washington, D.C., where he discovers a web of intrigue and witnesses fresh horrors.Even if Bond succeeds in exacting his revenge, a man with two faces will come to stalk his every waking moment.

Nat Tate, pintor abstracto, alcohólico y desventurado, se arrojó a las gélidas aguas neoyorquinas en enero de 1960. Nunca apareció su cadáver y apenas se hallarían algunos restos de su trabajo (dieciocho exactamente), pues el mismo se habia tomado la molestia de destruirlo poco antes de morir. Muchos años despues, un variopinto grupo compuesto por David Bowie, Gore Vidal, William Boyd y John Richardson (biografo de Picasso) convoco una fiesta de homenaje en la casa de Jeff Koons. Alli se leyeron fragmentos de este libro a la crema cultural de Manhattan, la cual, segun cuentan las cronicas, recordaba vagamente al inolvidable artista, aparecio el formidable merito de sus residuos y se sintio hondamente impresionada por su tragico destino.Asistian criticos, marchantes, directores de museo, periodistas, supermodelos y notables como Frank Stella, Julian Schnabel, John Ashbery, Jay Mclnerney, Siri Hustvedt, Paul Auster o Michael Collins. Fue sin duda un acontecimiento memorable, que por inesperados motivos, ocuparia largas columnas de prensa durante varias semanas y que ha seguido coleando hasta hoy sin menoscabo del prestigio postumo adquirido por el pintor, cuya exigencia obra rebota esporadicamente en la grandes casas de subastas. ¿Pero quien fue Nat Tate? Esta perfida biografia desvela este borroso enigma. Porque el lector acaba contemplando el libro o, dicho de otro modo, que esta delante de sus narices.

An Ice-Cream War is William Boyd''s sparkling debut novel on the grimly comic side of conflict, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.''What do you think would happen if I shot an elephant in the balls?''''I think it would hurt a great deal.''Millions die on the Western Front but in East Africa a quite different war is being waged - one with little point and which is so ignored that it will carry on after the Armistice because no one bothers to tell both sides to stop.As the conflict sweeps up natives and colonials, so those left at home and those fighting abroad find themselves unable to escape the tide of history bearing down on them.

Consulter un psychanalyste a parfois des conséquences inattendues: en proie à des troubles sexuels, Lysander croise la fascinante Hettie chez son thérapeute viennois et tombe fou amoureux. Acteur agu

1969. Espion chevronné, membre surdoué des services secrets de Sa Majesté, James Bond célèbre ses quarante-cinq ans avec une mission peu ordinaire : mettre un terme à la guerre civile qui déchire le

Überstürzt muss der Schauspieler Lysander Rief Wien verlassen. Er verfällt der unnahbaren Hettie und gerät mitten in die ersten Kriegswirren - zu einer Zeit, in der sich Europa am Rande des Abgrunds befindet. Psycoanalyse, Erster Weltkrieg, Spionage - nie ist William Boyd spannender, nie zwingender gewesen. Wien, 1913. Lysander Rief, ein aufstrebender junger Schauspieler, hat alle Zelte in London abgebrochen und sich nicht zufällig in die Stadt Sigmund Freuds begeben. Vor seiner Hochzeit muss er sich einem delikaten Problem stellen. Doch als er im Wartezimmer von Dr. Bensimon Hettie begegnet, weiß er sofort, diese unergründlichen braungrünen Augen werden ihn nicht mehr loslassen. Hettie Bull öffnet ihm alle Türen zum ausschweifenden Wiener Künstlerleben, sie betört, umgarnt und blendet ihn und drängt ihn in ein undurchschaubares Spiel, das ihn zur Flucht aus Wien und in die Arme zweier britischer Agenten treibt. Boyds neuer Roman ist eine Erkundung der Tiefen menschlicher Psyche und ein Spionageroman zugleich. Mit meisterlicher Hand entwirft Boyd einen Kosmos, der die Unruhe und Rastlosigkeit einer Epoche zeigt, den schmalen Grat zwischen Brillanz und Scheitern. Eine große Zeit ist aber nicht allein ein Parforceritt durch Europa und die Wirren des Ersten Weltkriegs, es ist ein großer wahrhaftiger Roman, den der Autor uns zu seinem 60. Geburtstag schenkt.

Amory Clay a un prénom d’homme et des rêves de grandeur. Dévorée dès son plus jeune âge par sa passion pour la photographie, elle ne recule ni devant l’adversité ni devant le scandale. Portraitiste m

This is the Sunday Times Bestseller. It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the small West African nation of Zanzarim. Aided by a beautiful accomplice and hindered by the local militia, he undergoes a scarring experience which compels him to ignore M's orders in pursuit of his own brand of justice. Bond's renegade action leads him to Washington, D.C., where he discovers a web of intrigue and witnesses fresh horrors. Even if Bond succeeds in exacting his revenge, a man with two faces will come to stalk his every waking moment.

The dazzling new book from one of Britain''s best-selling novelists.A philandering art dealer tries to give up casual love affairs - seeking only passionate kisses as a substitute. A man recounts his personal history through the things he has stolen from others throughout his life. A couple chart the journey of their five year relationship backwards, from awkward reunion to lovelorn first encounter. And, at the heart of the book, a 24-year old young woman, Bethany Mellmoth, embarks on a year-long journey of wishful and tentative self-discovery.The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth depicts the random encounters that bring the past bubbling to the surface; the impulsive decisions that irrevocably shape a life; and the endless hesitations and loss-of-nerve that wickedly complicate it. These funny, surprising and moving stories are a resounding confirmation of Boyd''s powers as one of our most original and compelling storytellers.

Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century - contains more than its fair share of both. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Virginia Woolf in London, as a spy recruited by Ian Fleming and betrayed in the war and as an art-dealer in '60s New York, Logan mixes with the movers and shakers of his times. But as a son, friend, lover and husband, he makes the same mistakes we all do in our search for happiness. Here, then, is the story of a life lived to the full - and a journey deep into a very human heart.

Verano de 1913. El joven actor Lysander Rief, animado por las noticias que llegan a Londres sobre los exitos del psicoanálisis, se desplaza a Viena para tratarse un problema sexual. Allí acude a la consulta del doctor Bensimon, discipulo de Freud, donde irrumpe una mujer por la que se siente atraido: la misteriosa Hettie Bull. La ciudad bulle, la cerveza corre y los vieneses llenan las terrazas y parques, una vida sugerente que cautiva al elegante Lysander quien, embarcado en una apasionada relacion con Hettie, parece haber encontrado la cura a su dolencia. De regreso a Londres y con la guerra inminente, sus vivencias en Viena lo persiguen e involucran en un escenario inesperado de espionaje, escandalos y sexo. Entre Viena y el West End londinense, con paradas en Paris, Ginebra y Trieste, Esperando el alba es una aventura poblada de intrigas, hermosas damas y heridas que no cicatrizan, todo un tour de force literario donde al alba tal vez se difuminen las sombras e incertidumbres de la noche.

The major and stunning new novel about wartime espionage from bestselling author William Boyd

thrilling, plot-twisting new novel set in Europe during the first world war, from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart, Restless and Ordinary Thunderstorms. Vienna. 1913. It is a fine day in August when Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through the city to his first appointment with the eminent psychiatrist, Dr. Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is anxiously pondering the nature of his problem when an extraordinary woman enters. She is clearly in distress, but Lysander is immediately drawn to her strange, hazel eyes and her unusual, intense beauty. Later the same day they meet again, and a more composed Hettie Bull introduces herself as an artist and sculptor, and invites Lysander to a party hosted by her lover, the famous painter Udo Hoff. Compelled to attend and unable to resist her electric charm, they begin a passionate love affair. Life in Vienna becomes tinged with the frisson of excitement for Lysander. He meets Sigmund Freud in a cafe, begins to write a journal, enjoys secret trysts with Hettie and appears to have been cured... London, 1914. War is stirring, and events in Vienna have caught up with Lysander. Unable to live an ordinary life, he is plunged into the dangerous theatre of wartime intelligence - a world of sex, scandal and spies, where lines of truth and deception blur with every waking day. Lysander must now discover the key to a secret code which is threatening Britain''s safety, and use all his skills to keep the murky world of suspicion and betrayal from invading every corner of his life. Moving from Vienna to London''s west end, the battlefields of France and hotel rooms in Geneva, Waiting for Sunrise is a feverish and mesmerising journey into the human psyche, a beautifully observed portrait of wartime Europe, and a literary tour de force from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart, Restless and Ordinary Thunderstorms.

Through the intimate journals of Logan Mounstuart we travel from Uruguay to Oxford, on to Paris, the Bahamas, New York and West Africa, and meet his three wives, his family, his friends and colleague

Es una divertida, disparatada y entretenida novela sobre el absurdo de la vida en una gran metrópoli como Londres, donde acontecimientos sorprendentes pueden volver del revés hasta la existencia más

Granta 100 will be edited by William Boyd and will include pieces by: Martin Amis Julian Barnes Bill Buford AM Homes Ian Jack Mario Vargas Llosa Nicholas Shakespeare Ian McEwan Doris Lessing Helen Simpson Jayne Anne Phillips About William Boyd (editor) William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra in Ghana. His novels include The Armadillo, Blue Afternoon, An Ice-cream War. His most recent publication was Restless (published by Bloomsbury). He was one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 1983. He has also published a short-story collection, Fascination.